Trump Says US-Iran Talks Could Resume in the Next Two Days

On The Abiding Mystery Of This 'Lunatic' Fourth Turning Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, The Deluge "The country looks pathetic because too many of its men became pathetic first and then demanded the rest of us treat the collapse as a moral achievement." - LHGrey on Substack An abiding mystery of this lunatic Fourth Turning is how it came to be that the supposed intellectual elite of America was the class that so shamelessly lost its collective mind, got behind ideas that ranged from absurd to disgraceful - "Defund the Police,"...

The US Spends More On 'Defense' Than The Next 8 Countries Combined For the first time on record, the top 15 military spenders allocated more than $2 trillion to defense in 2025. Total global defense spending also reached a record $2.6 trillion, signaling a major shift in geopolitical priorities. Using data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, this visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, ranks the 15 countries driving this surge in military spending. While the U.S. still operates on an entirely different scale, the biggest shift is happening in Europe, where countries...